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bcrosby95 on Dec 30, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done wi...

Horizontally scaling a monolith web app has basically zero overhead. Both in app design and production complexity. But it can go decently far.

lmm on Dec 30, 2019 [–]

Only if you're assuming that the web app is entirely stateless. Which won't be the case unless it was deliberately designed that way.

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